June 17, 2010
Dissention in the Amnesty Ranks?
Alfredo Gutierrez, who writes for La Frontera Times, says the Reform Immigration For America campaign disrespected DREAM Act activists by meeting with Sen. Schumer while students were staging a hunger strike by his office. Gutierrez says RIFA and the major national amnesty groups are 'aparatchiks'. "Ten years of consistent failure, ten years of sacrificing the lives and dreams of perhaps six or seven hundred thousand youngsters should be enough to persuade even the most ardent aparatchik that one should reconsider. Unfortunately, the uncreative who populate many of the mainstream advocacy plod on without a hint of irony arguing that their failure represents loyalty to principle."
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Sen. Pearce Says Anchor Baby Problem Next Up for Legislation
"Emboldened by passage of the nation's toughest law against illegal immigration, the Arizona politician who sponsored the measure now wants to deny U.S. citizenship to children born in this country to undocumented parents," notes the Associated Press.
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ICE Tries Re-Branding Effort to De-Emphasize Illegal Immigration
"U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement will realign its duties to promote criminal investigations over immigrant deportation, officials have announced," the Washington Post reported. "By streamlining and renaming several offices, officials hope to highlight the agency's counterterrorism, money laundering and other complex criminal investigations and in the process "re-brand" ICE, turning the public -- and political -- spotlight away from its immigration work."
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